Bothriomyrmex meridionalis Rog. var. communista Santschi, 1919: 206

Martynov, Alexander V. & Radchenko, Alexander G., 2016, Karawajew’s ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Zootaxa 4097 (2), pp. 244-254 : 247

Bothriomyrmex meridionalis Rog. var. communista Santschi, 1919: 206 , w.

Current status: Bothriomyrmex communistus . Raised to species: Emery, 1925: 10.

Type locality(-ies): “ Russie (Crimée) (Karawajew leg.) w”.

Original Karawajew label(-s): “ Bothriomyrmex / meridionalis Rog. / v. communista Sant. / Typus: Santschi / Магарачъ [= Magarach], 26.III.1903. / Рязанцевъ [= Ryazantsev]. № 1600.”.

Material: PARALECTOTYPES, 5 w (newly mounted, IN 314/6/1), 46 w, 5 larvae (in alcohol, IN 314/ BAMS 1/Karaw36).

Notes. Santschi (1919) described Bothriomyrmex meridionalis var. communista from workers collected in Crimea by Karawajew, but he did not provide precise locality information or Karawajew's sample number. Later Dubovikoff designated one specimen with the label “Crimée Karawajew” preserved in the collection of the Natural History Museum Basel ( Switzerland) as the lectotype, and the second specimen with the same label as the paralectotype (these data were published first by Seifert in 2012).

In the collection of NMNH NASU we found 51 workers with the original Karawajew label “ Bothriomyrmex / meridionalis Rog. / v. communista Sant. / Typus: Santschi / Магарачъ, 26.III.1903. / Рязанцевъ. № 1600” [= Magarach, Ryazantsev] (see also Fig. 2 ). There are also 3 workers in the Karawajew collection in SIZSK with Karawajew labels “Magaratsh, Tauria, Rjasanzev, 26.III.1903 ”, “ Bothriomyrmex meridionalis Rog. v. communista Santschi , typus ”; the latter workers where designated by Kostyuk (1976) as “ Syntypus ”. We propose to consider all the material from Magarach as paralectotypes of B. communista .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. Examples of original vials and labels from the Karawajew’s ant collection: 1 — original vials; 2 – 5 — original labels of the type material.